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Cyworld proclaims Supreme Team number 1 for the month of October. I’m not really familiar with Supreme Team so I don’t really know what to say. Like the song though, but not really crazy about it.

Anyway there few things I noticed in this month’s Cyworld Song of the Month. For one thing, 2AM is already in the Top 20 though they just recently released their songs. Not really surprising though. 2 Years ago, Wonder Girls released “Nobody” a week before the end of September and yet they won September’s Song of the Month.

Also, 2PM is nowhere to be seen in the charts. Their “I’ll Be Back” song is ranked 31 on October. And I don’t think it would go higher since 2AM and SNSD will start dominating the charts soon. Actually, they have already. Weird though, cause 2PM won a lot of Music Show awards and not just Music Bank. You’d think at least they should be on the Top 20. I’ll be scared if I’m 2PM. This is their lowest ranking ever since they became popular with Again and Again. Miss A and the newly released songs from SNSD and 2AM even ranked higher than them.

Lastly, the elderly of Family Outing is still charting. I love Family Outing. The original one. And I love the members. Yoon Jong Shin, Fighting!

Wonder Girls and Super Junior once again battled out for first place in the recent episode of Music Bank. Though the points are much closer than last week, Super Junior maintained their #1 spot. And like last week, album sales helped Super Junior a lot.

Let’s admit it. “Bonamana” isn’t really a hit. It won awards only because of album sales. The 3 Music Bank wins of Super Junior was heavily influenced by the sales. But the question is, how long can ELFs keep this up. They can’t keep buying tons of albums week per week. They need the help of Digital Score, Viewer’s Preference and Broadcasting Score. I’m really puzzled why “Bonamana” isn’t popular with Koreans. The song is good but “Bonamana” barely appears on the Top 10 of the online charts.

Unlike other online charts, Cyworld releases their charts every month. So here you go. This will only be the monthly chart that I will post from now on. Posting the weekly charts and then the monthly online charts are too much work. I am only one person. But if you are interested to know, the links to all online charts that I’m posting are on my blogroll. The sites are in Korean but it’s easy to go around.

Anyway, Hot Potato’s Confession reigned supreme the entire month of May. The song is okay. It has a John Mayer sound to it. It’s great that other artists are getting much needed recognition aside for the usual idol group.

Super Junior has won yet again in the latest K-chart in Music Bank. They were up against the Wonder Girls. The win was a no surprise to me. Didn’t I tell you that Music Bank is all about album sales? Fans have been controlling Music Bank by album sales. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the chart, here’s how Music Bank determines their winner.

Album Sales maybe just a mere 10% but as I said it is the easiest to control if you have fans that massive. We all know by now that Korean fans are die hard fans and will go to lengths to glorify their idols. Some went even to the extent to buy 2-3 albums a week (fan account only, I have no means to prove this but everyone knows this fact).

I’m not saying that Super Junior doesn’t deserve the award. I honestly like the song. I for one is puzzled why it’s not popular online. Even in cyworld. It’s just that Music Bank doesn’t tell which song is really popular but what song is selling the most. If you go back on my Music Bank and Online charts posts, those songs that sell the most, though not popular, wins in the show. SNSD’s “Oh!” prolonged their win. 3 of their 5 Music Bank wins are because of album sales

Starting from this episode, I will break down the points of the contenders in the number 1 spot. Anyway, congrats to Super Junior and to their adoring ELFs. I predict another SUJU win. I think Wonder Girls will start to drop in charts now their not in Korea anymore.

Here are the complete list of last Friday’s Music Bank. Super Junior won but it seems like they won because of album sales and not that their song is popular. Here’s the complete chart with figure.

With the massive number of ELFs plus the tendency of Kpop fans to buy more than 1 album to lift up their idols, this feat is not really impossible. But this does make the show’s charting unreliable. It’s just basing on album sales which is the easiest to control. Online charts shows that Bonamana isn’t popular to the general public which I find odd. The song is so SuJu just like 2DT is so WG. I like Bonamana actually but seems like Korea isn’t crazy for it.

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At this moment, a few of the online charts have already released their ranking for the week. Since Music bank’s cutoff is on a Monday, we can assume that they follow the same charting. So far it’s been the Wonder Girls dominating on the online week chart while Super Junior dominates on the album chart Hanteo. If you wanna see the charts, please look for it on my blogroll.

The question right now, will Wonder Girls even have a chance considering Super Junior has a clear dominance in the album sales though 2DT is more popular? We’ll see. Only 4 days before Music Bank.

I apologize for this late post. Actually this article was supposed to be published last Friday. It was already finished. But for some reason, wordpress has prevented me to write anything new. I wrote a comment in my latest article in case I won’t be able to write here again. But since you’re reading this, all is well and done.

These are the online charts for the 20th week of 2010. One thing I’ve notice, Super Junior barely showed up. But they won in Music Bank last Friday. The charts below are the basis for winning in the said show. It just strengthens my theory about album sales. As I hypothesized, album sales determines the winner in Music Bank, and the win last Friday just proved that.

You ask what’s the problem? A person can buy more than 1 album. So if 10,000 fans bought 10 albums each. It will be 100,000 albums sold. I know, it’s very illogical for a person to buy more than 1 album, but we are talking about Korean fans. Fans that will go to length just to immortalize their idol. In my opinion, online charts are the best way to know what song is really popular.

I added a few charts on my blogroll. I won’t be adding them yet to my weekly online posts. Gotta check them first. Anyway, here they are.